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Snow daze at Basin Harbor

Here we are, firmly in the grip of winter!  It’s an old-fashioned landscape, with a couple of feet of snow on the ground, icicles hanging from eaves, and the Lake solidly frozen across for the first time in several years. … Continue reading

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Ruminations on the holidays

As I was packing up the Christmas decorations (surely my least favorite activity of all times), I fell to thinking about the past.  When Bob and I were growing up, our family lived in the Homestead in the winter and … Continue reading

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Happy New Year

Can it be the end of 2010?  We’ve had a great year, all around – a lovely summer, for the most part, and a very colorful fall notwithstanding the relative lack of preciptiation during the summer months (hence the great … Continue reading

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Brrrrrry Basin Harbor

It’s pretty cold here today but, hey! ’tis the season!  I visited my Dad in Naples, FL, earlier in the week – it was cold there, too, albeit warmer than Vermont.  As I got on the plane in New York, … Continue reading

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Cyber days

It’s a good thing that the internet is healthy as I do my holiday shopping!  The thought of trekking around to endless malls is just not appealing at all!  I’m keeping the UPS man very busy this year. It’s pretty … Continue reading

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Happy Thanksgiving

Well, here it is, the day after a wonderful Thanksgiving feast.  I was too stuffed yesterday to even think of blogging.  It was a lovely family occasion – Hasket and Sarah were home, our friend Paul was here from Miami, … Continue reading

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February sunshine

Has been pretty rare this year.  All the snow we’d like has ended up in the middle part of the East coast.  The lawns at Basin Harbor Club are mostly bare of snow and brown.  We wouldn’t say it’s mud … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

Basin Harbor Club entered the new decade with a mantle of snow, not unusual for this time of the year.  Our big news is left over from 2009:  The Champlain Bridge was demolished on December 28th.  The structure was condemned on … Continue reading

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Summer’s here at last

Summer weather has finally come to Vermont, not a moment too soon.  Lots of familiar faces are everywhere.  It’s fun to catch up with folks we haven’t seen for a year. The moose we mentioned last time has moved on … Continue reading

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It’s Busy Here

Here we are, just about the end of May, and we’re doing all sorts of things: The sod has been replaced and the ground re-contoured on the fifth green. The Red Mill has a great collection of hot sauces.  Even … Continue reading

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